BLACK KITE (Milvus migrans)

Uncommon Vagrant

1976 Luddesdown, one north, 8th May.
1980 Sandwich Bay, 17th May, same Chislet, 17th May.
  Dungeness, 28th May to 1st June.
1981 Pluckley, flying north-east, and two hours later at Naccolt, nr. Wye, 4th April.
  Hatch Park, 27th to 29th May.
1982 Dungeness RSPB, one north-west, 8th May.
  Sandwich Bay, adult, 16th May.
1983 Bough Beech Reservoir, 22nd April.
  Stodmarsh area, 4th May.
  Dymchurch, Lydd, and Dungeness, 8th May.
  Canterbury, 11th May.
  Ashford, 6th September.
1985 Eastchurch, Sheppey, 24th-26th May.
1986 Dungeness, 26th April.
  Wingham, 30th April.
  Dungeness, 28th May.
  Lyminge Forest, 11th June.
1987 St. Mary's Bay, Dymchurch, and Dungeness, 2nd-4th May.
1988 Dungeness 12th-14th May.
  Warehorne/Ham Street, 22nd July.
1989 Dungeness RSPB, 27th May.
  Sandwich Bay, one north, 29th May.
1991 Broadstairs, 4th August.
1992 Higham Bight, one south, 24th May.
  Stodmarsh area, 24th to 25th May, presumed different from previous bird.
1993 Dover, 26th May.
  Grain, 29th May.
  Worth Marshes, 16th June.
  St. Margaret's, 20th June.
  Bishopstone, one west, 11th July.
  Dungeness Observatory, 7th August.
1994 Bough Beech Reservoir, one east over Winkhurst Wood, 24th April.
  Bough Beech Reservoir, 9th May.
  Capel-le-Ferne, two, 9th May.
  Pegwell Bay, one south, 12th May.
  Langdon Cliffs, Dover, 13th May.
  St. Margaret's Bay, 15th May.
  St. Margaret's Bay, 30th May.
1995 Cheriton, one east, 20th April.
1998 Dungeness RSPB, one south-west, 24th April.
1999 Dungeness RSPB, 15th May.
  Dungeness Observatory, second spring, west, 21th May.
  Dungeness RSPB, 30th May.
2000 St. Margaret's, first summer, west, 8th May.
  Stodmarsh, north-east, 8th May, possibly same as previous record.
  Dungeness area, 9th May, photo.
2003 Margate, 3rd May. Also at Bockhill and Swalecliffe same day. Click for photo
  Pegwell Bay, one north-west, 31st May.
2004 Bockhill, one south-west, 10th May, with possibly same bird Dungeness Observatory, 12th May.
2005 Hythe, one flew east, 12th April.
2006 Bockhill, 6th May.
  Abbotscliffe, two birds, 6th May.
  Cliffe, 9th May, and at Grain same day.
  Seaton, 20th May.
2007 Between Dover and Canterbury, 28th April.
  Dover, 4th August, with same bird following day, 5th August, at Bockhill.